The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3) — Page 608
CH. 17 BANI ISRĀ'ĪL PT. 15 أَوْ تَكُونَ لَكَ جَنَّةٌ مِّنْ نَّخِيلٍ وَعِنَبٍ Or thou have a garden of. 92 date-palms and vines, and cause streams to gush forth in the midst thereof in abundance; فَتُفَجَّرَ الْأَنْهَرَ خِللَهَا تَفْجِيْرًان اَوْ تُسْقِطَ السَّمَاءَ كَمَا زَعَمْتَ عَلَيْنَا Or, thou cause the heaven. 93 to fall upon us in pieces, as thou hast claimed, or, thou bring Allah and the angels before us face to face; 2021 كِسَفًا أَوْ تَأْتِيَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْمَلَكَةِ قَبِيْلاتُ أوْ يَكُونَ لَكَ بَيْتُ مِنْ زُخْرُفٍ أَوْ Or thou have a house of. 94 gold or thou ascend up into تَرْقُى فِي السَّمَاءِ وَلَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لِرَقِيكَ heaven; and we will not believe حَتَّى تُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْنَا كِتبًا نَّقْرَؤُهُ in thy ascension until thou send down to us a book that we can قُلْ سُبْحَانَ رَبِّي هَلْ كُنْتُ إِلَّا read. Say, “Holy is my Lord! I بَشَرًا رَّسُوْلًا * I am not but a man sent as a Messenger. '2022 "25:11. most wonderful works could be performed by special spiritual exercises and by the help disembodied spirits. 2021. Commentary: of Disbelievers mockingly told the Holy Prophet, that, if he could not bring to them any of the good things which they demanded he might as well cause the sky to fall upon them or let God and His angels destroy them. 2022. Commentary: The contemptuous tone of the disbelievers' discourse is continued in this verse. They are represented as saying to the Prophet that if he could not accomplish any of the things they demanded of him, he might at least have some good things for himself. Pharaoh had challenged Moses that he could not be a true Prophet because he possessed no bracelets of gold (43:54); but the Meccan disbelievers went a step further and declared that the Prophet's claims could only be regarded true if he possessed a house made of gold. heaven. . . that we can read, contain a The words, Or thou ascend up into derisive reference to the Mi'raj or the Ascension of the Prophet. The disbelievers meant to say that they would not believe in his ascension unless he stayed in the heavens and let fall to them a book that they might read. To these foolish demands of the 1816